The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-12

being the wiser for her adventure.
To get her children out of the way
she suggested that they should visit
her brother, who resided mile away,
and communicate to him the step she
had taken. AS soon as they were
gone she quilted her sisters house
unknown TO any one but her maid,
whom she had taken with her, and,
procuring cab, went to within a
hundred yards of her former resi-
dnnce in the Boulevard de Neuilly.
Directing the driver to wait for her
return she went toward the dwelling,
opening the pate into the garden
with caution she left it ajar and
crossed the lawn TO a side door. This
she also left ajar, being afraid that
the closing of it might arouse the
inmates. Without difficulty or mo-
lestation she ascended the stairs and
succeeded in getting possession of the
money. She quilted the house, still
leaving the side door ajar, but on
passing out of the garden she closed
The gate and hastily walked toward
the cab. She reached her sisters
house before her children returned
and without her absence having been
noticed.
The next morning M. Sasson fail
ed to call for his valet as usual. Al
ter waiting for some time, according
to the yalet's statement. he went to
his masters apartment and found
him lying in bed with bullet hole
in his head. On the coverlet lay his
revolver. His watch and purse " ere
missing. His wardrobe had been
ransacked and his escritoire broken
open. There was no doubt that the
assassin had been at work.
The Judge of Instruction and his
officers investigated the case and ar
rived at the conclusion that murder
and robbery had been done.
The valet told what he knew about
the family troubles and the fact of
Nine. Sasson and her children hav.
ing left their home the previous day
on account of what had passed be-
tween monsieur and his wife and son.
Then the valet related the incident
of the revolver.
But how had any one entered the
house? Jean Chauban, the valet,
testified that early in the morning, as
Iheewass siakiaa the lnillksaAt. &the@ear.
den door, he observed that the side
door of the house was sjar, and go.
ing in that way closed it after him.
The garden was high, but an expert
climber could easily scale it on either
side.
The gendarmes on duty near by
testified that between 10 and IL
O'Clock the previous night he saw a
cab standing within a few hundred
feet of the house. He spoke with
the driver who said:
IA very comely waman has just
disappeared by the side of that
house,"
The cabman was easily found by
the police. Did he know the lady =?
No. Where did he take her up at ?
On the corner of the Rue de Morny
and the Faubourg st. Honore. Nine.
SEASONS sister resided an the Rue de
MOrny near the Rue de P0ntheu. 1t
wasayery painful conclusion to reach, q,
but there Nas no avoiding it-Mme.
Sasson had assassInateI her husband
and the missing articles were taken
merely to turn aside suspicion. She
had lived unhappily with him; he
had determined to reduce his estab-
lishment; he had struck her! All
tuese facts were testified to by do.
mestics. Then came the episode of
the pistol, narrated by the valet, and
the further fact, admitted by Nine.
SEASONS maid when she was cleverly
captured on the street and removed
to the office of the Judge of Instruc.
ton, that Nine. Sasson had key to
the garden and the side door of the
house, and that she had been absent
from her sisters house for two hours
between 9:30 and 11:30 the night OF
October %.
Everything being thus clear Nine.
Sass0n was arrested and charged with
the crime of murder. Nine. Sasson
denied the accusation and told the
story as the reader has 1t before him,
emitting the episode of the pistol.
"DO you remember going to the
bureau in the library before you left
the house October 22?" the Judge OF
instruction asked her.
"Yes, ] do"
lyon took a revolver out of the
bureau, and you haven't mentioned
the fact"
IL did; but Yefrained from saying
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